Craig Breitbach Gallery
Craig Breitbachwww.craigbreitbach.com Fall City
NWSSA Staff
December 14, 2009
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Craig Breitbachwww.craigbreitbach.com Fall City
Matt Auvinen has been carving for over 30 years. He received his BA from California StateUniversity, Chico and his MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.In 1988 Matt moved to Pietrasanta where he worked as an artisan for several sculpturelaboratories. For 12 of his 20 years in Italy, Matt taught sculpture and drawing for a private,university level, art program in Florence. His sculptural foundation is from working withmixed media. Matt has worked with cast bronze, welded steel, plaster and wood. Found objectassemblage became a focus of his work in the late 80s and this sensibility has been projectedon to his work in stone. – Matt will be offering comprehensive workshops on mold-making, reproductions, pointing, and direct carving methods.
Symposium Schedule (as of June 28th) [click here]
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To download a PDF of the registration form: click here
To view and download a PDF of our 2011 Camp B brochure- click here
To view and download a flyer for the Art Walk in the Meadow July 16th – click here
(For those who registered, due to the Canadian Postal strike, we are posting
these “post registration” documents: “Registration Thank You” & “What to Bring“)
NWSSA’s fall stone carving symposium happens every year in a special place. Oregon’s Silver Falls State Park has preserved
Yes, you can buy tools and stone at Silver Falls and Camp B. Here is an interview with one of
July 2009 we came to carve, learn, share, create, and be part of a community north of Seattle at Camp
There are five to six inches of storage space under your car. Try the color enhancer on a scrap
White, creamy limestone has been a staple of Pacific Northwest sculptors since 1992 when 6 tons of Utah oolitic found
Driving directions to Art City are easy you say? Ha! They go something like this: Take the California St. exit
A recent project I did this past summer through Path with Art, an organization which works with people in transitional
In October of 2007, my brother and I collected the rhyolite from an ancient volcanic ridge 50 miles east of
In the book, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Michelangelo is said to have draped the David marble in damp cloth
Viewed as a sculpture, the chipped rounded rock that fit so comfortably into my hand was no more remarkable than
SAVE THE DATES! SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th – NWSSA HOLIDAY PARTY – 4-8PM Stone Carving Folks, Family and Friends, our winter potluck party will be hosted at
August 25th – September 1st, 202429th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium at Camp Suttle Lake near Sisters, Oregon Early Birds! Sign up by July 15th
Over the past two years, NWSSA has invited Myles from 2 Sculpt to lead a virtual tool session covering a variety of topics. These have
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